"Don't say it, don't say it, go and bury the old man in a good coffin for me, and I'll tell you again when you come back." After that, Aster Ju beckoned Song Xifan and Lin Fengzhi to a small county town called Xixian County below Hancheng.

As soon as you come here, you will find that it is very unusual here, the white things are all posted red cloth, and the drama is also lively, but it is also right, according to the customs of the people of Handcheng themselves, it is true that the old people in the family should celebrate well, and when Song Xifan came here, he found the residence called "Fu" in the mouth of Aster Ju, the grandfather of this family is 108 years old this year, and he died at the end of his life.

The wine and condolences have been hanging for two days, just waiting for Song Xifan and them to come over and bury this grandfather into the museum, of course, this burial must be particular, before the two of them set off, Aster can give them two evil to make up

At the time of burial, the deceased's son carried the body into the coffin. In this area of Handcheng, it is important to wrap the head of the deceased with a red cloth, and then his eldest son holds his head, and the other 4 or 6 people carry their bodies, and their feet go out of the house first. Outside the house, use a blanket to shade the sun or play an umbrella, and places such as Fushan are called "not seeing the sky". When entering the coffin, the deceased's feet should be advanced and then laid flat inside the coffin. It turned out that the cuffs and trousers of the deceased were tied with linen and hems, and they had to be untied at this time. In some places, the male deceased has a whip in his right hand and a steamed bun in his left hand, and a female deceased has a steamed bun on both hands. The whip is called "dog whip", and the steamed bun is called "dog dry food". In the Xiangfen area, the deceased should be bound with a white cloth after being out of breath, and after entering the funeral, the white cloth should be taken out and distributed to the children and grandchildren to tie their waists, which is called "leaving offspring". In Qi County and other places in central Jinzhong, the head of the deceased should be pillow with a special concave hollow pillow, painted with the sun and moon, mountains and rivers, and floral patterns, and the pillow is really made of incense sticks and grains. The deceased was covered with seven pieces of silver leaf, and finally covered from head to toe with a seven-foot red cloth, which was prepared by the married daughter, commonly known as the "shop girl". After the deceased is covered, some daily necessities and beloved things of the deceased should be placed in the coffin, but it is absolutely forbidden to put woolen fabrics and fur products, such as blankets, felts, leather mattresses, fur shoes, etc. The folk believe that if you commit this taboo, you will "become an animal with hair, and be reborn by mistake". In addition to sprinkling some grains and paper money, some donkey hoof nails and pig iron pieces should be placed in the coffin. It is best to use ploughshare fragments for pig iron sheets, which means "opening the way into the soil".

After the burial is completed, the coffin lid is obliquely covered on the coffin, leaving a gap. After the final inspection by the relatives of the deceased, the coffin is closed at night or at the time chosen by Mr. Yin and Yang. Cover the coffin, also known as the "coffin" metaphor, family members, relatives and friends gather to remove the mask or paper on the face of the deceased and bid farewell to the deceased. If the deceased is a woman, the nephew or family members of the deceased should also be asked to inspect the dress and cover to see if there are any objections. Then the coffin was officially covered with wedges, and family members, relatives and friends knelt down to say goodbye. In the area of "Xi" County, the red cloth covered by the deceased should be pulled down from the feet before the coffin is closed, revealing the face, and then tearing off a piece of the red cloth and quickly closing the wooden lock, that is, the mortise and tenon between the coffin lid and the coffin body. Seven nails were used on one side of the coffin, and a small piece of torn red cloth was placed on each nail. When the coffin was nailed, the whole family avoided crying, and only the son of the deceased had to stand next to the coffin and shout "hide the nails". This is generally the same in both the north and west of Shanxi. Neighbors and friends who participate in the coffin are required to wear red cloth strips, and the person who nails the coffin is given a reward, which is called "happy money". After the coffin is covered, the children of the deceased have to pat the coffin several times, commonly known as "waking up". In Xiangfen and other places, the children of the deceased should make "one-sided" offerings in front of the spirit, and then the people who participated in the funeral will share the food, indicating that they will never know the deceased forever.

In the middle of the night on the second day of burial, "Xi" county and other places should prepare paper horses, carts, incense burners, tin foil, and paper figures, and the children of the deceased cry and send them to the crossroads that must be passed through for future funerals to be burned, so as to see off the deceased, commonly known as "sending the soul". In Wenxi, on the third night of the deceased's death, after the family bowed at the Chenghuang Temple and the Land Temple, one of the deceased's daughters carried a soup can, secretly groped for the pouring, and called the deceased. In addition, there is a substitute for agreeing, where three calls and three responses, and then crying out of the temple gate to go home. Round-trip to deliberately detour far, after returning home crying and burning paper, called "burning road paper". In other places, after someone in the family dies, or three nights, or five nights, or seven nights, the family members have to go to the City God Temple to cry and call their relatives back, commonly known as "calling the night". Relatives and friends should give lanterns in these few days, and the bereaved family is proud of the many lanterns. Folks believe that after death, people will be judged by the god of the city, and after the judgment of innocence, the family will return with a lamp to lure the soul. Therefore, this custom is also called "sending lamps". In the old days, there were many rituals for coffin lid nails, and some cut off a few strands of the hair of filial sons and filial women, and wound the tips of the shou nails. There are also small handfuls of their hair, wrapped in yellow paper, and worn on shou nails. When some nails are "main nails", they have to ask their uncles and cousins to wedge them. At this time, the uncle can use this to reprimand those unfilial children, grandchildren, and daughters-in-law, and at the same time raise some difficult questions, and the filial son must agree, otherwise he will not be wedged. At this time, only by inviting a person with prestige in the clan to intercede, and the filial son kowtowed to apologize, the uncle agreed to the wedge. In addition, the patriarch holds the axe wedge "Shou Nail" for male funerals, and the female funeral is operated by her maternal uncle. The daughter-in-law and unmarried daughter of the deceased each pulled out three hairs and nailed them in. The main nail is tied with a strip of red cloth, after the uncle or patriarch raises the axe, the carpenter rivets, at this time the relatives of the deceased kneel in front of the spirit, shout for the soul of the deceased, so that it is not frightened, wedge the left nail, to shout the dead relatives to the right "dodge the nail", wedge the right nail, to shout the dead relatives to the left "dodge the nail".

After the burial, the entourage will "invert the head meal", "soul attraction lamp" (also known as "inverted head lamp"), "mourning basin" (burning paper basin) for the mourners to kowtow.

Before entering the coffin, the eldest son was accompanied by the relatives of the previous generation, weeping while walking to the waterfront, throwing money into the water, and bottled water downstream, which is called "buying water". As the last coffin, the water of Sheng Hui crawls prostrate for a week, called "climbing the coffin", to show goodbye. Then choose the right time to nail, and every time you nail it, you have to say an auspicious word. Except for filial men and women, if anyone else is in conflict with the time of burial, it is not allowed to see the deceased buried in the funeral. Ordinary people, after the deceased into the funeral, that is, choose the time to go out of the funeral, the rich family set up a mourning hall before the funeral, called "enterprise hall", "enterprise hall" some for one year, some up to three years, every seven days to call the painter to paint the coffin, in order to prevent the flow of corpse juice. A mourning hall was set up for relatives and friends to come to mourn, and filial sons took turns to guard the side of the coffin. When relatives and friends come to worship, the filial son should kneel to greet and send him off, and the filial daughter should cry loudly.

At least it can be regarded as yin and yang, even if red is used as the keynote, it is inevitable that future generations will be reluctant to this grandfather.